The OCaml Weekly News for 2025-06-10 is out

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/38285112

Learnings from the Cambridge Environmental Sustainability Committee: I joined Cambridge's loftily named Environment Sustainability Strategy Committee this academic year, and have attended a couple of meetings with the latest one being held today. While a lot of what goes on is intricately tied into the University's rather special governance structure and the complexity of the College system, there has been significant progress on making all of this… https://anil.recoil.org/notes/cambridge-essc-progress?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #OCaml #OCamlPlanet

The OCaml Weekly News for 2025-06-02 is out

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/37769565

As we gear up for the official commencement of our June 2025 Outreachy cohort, we couldn’t do it without our champions of inclusion.

Outreachy extends a heartfelt THANK YOU to the generous sponsors powering this cohort at the following levels:

➡️ Ceiling Smasher: @wikimediafoundation.
Thank you for breaking barriers and providing opportunities for underrepresented talents in tech.

➡️ Promoter: #RedHat (for @fedora
projects), and @tarides
(for @ocaml projects).
We appreciate you for creating meaningful change and advancement in the free and open source software ecosystem.

➡️ Includer: #TheCityUniversityofNewYork [Research Foundation](for @bioconductor projects).
Thank you for championing diversity through targeted support for impactful projects.

➡️ Welcomer
@gnome , @nixos_org , @igalia , and @OpenSourceCollective (for @servo ), #Microsoft (#systemd projects), @mozilla, and #Meta.
Your commitment empowers us to support diverse, global talent in open source by providing paid, remote internships to those who face underrepresentation, systemic biases, or discrimination in the technology industry of their different countries.

We're grateful for your continued partnership in building a more inclusive, equitable, and impactful tech ecosystem. Let’s keep smashing ceilings together!

#Outreachy #OpenSource #DiversityInTech #Inclusion #Internships #CommunitySupport

Is OCaml on the web? Absolutely! Our latest post introduces some of the top libraries and tools for web development in OCaml https://tarides.com/blog/2025-05-15-ocaml-web-development-essential-tools-and-libraries-in-2025/

Webassembly on exotic architectures (a 2025 roundup): It's about the time of the academic year to come up with project ideas! KC Sivaramakrishnan, Andy Ray and I have been looking into FPGA/OCaml matters recently so I thought I'd review the latest in the land of Webassembly for non-traditional hardware targets. It turns out that there are very fun systems projects going on to turn wasm into a "real" target architecture on several fronts: a native port… https://anil.recoil.org/notes/wasm-on-exotic-targets?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #OCaml #OCamlPlanet

Catch up on what our team member's Xavier and Antonin got up to at BOBKonf 2025, including Xavier's talk on OCaml editor support: https://tarides.com/blog/2025-05-08-tarides-at-bob-konferenz-2025/

Parsimoni and DPhiSpace are running a hackathon! Test your mettle as you build your own unikernel-based application and choose whether to take the exploit or use-case challenge – with numerous prizes up for grabs! https://hacksat.dev

Check out our latest feature parity post on restoring MSVC support for OCaml 5 – great news for Windows users! https://tarides.com/blog/2025-04-23-feature-parity-series-restoring-the-msvc-port/

OCaml Weekly News, 06 May 2025: * Docfd 11.0.0: TUI multiline fuzzy document finder
* opam 2.4.0~alpha1
* Early work experimenting with zig as a cross-compiler for OCaml
* Dune 3.18
* A tool to reverse debug OCaml/other binary runs
* opam 2.4.0~alpha2
* (BER) MetaOCaml N153, for OCaml 5.3.0
* Other OCaml News https://alan.petitepomme.net/cwn/2025.05.06.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #OCaml #OCamlPlanet

Check out the latest update from the Dune team, building all Dune packages in opam-repository using Dune package management 🐫https://tarides.com/blog/2025-04-11-expanding-dune-package-management-to-the-rest-of-the-ecosystem/

OCaml is in space! Our sister company Parsimoni has partnered with DPhi Space and put SpaceOS on a satellite, read more on our blog: https://tarides.com/blog/2025-04-03-ocaml-in-space-spaceos-is-on-a-satellite/

Sabine Schmaltz reports on her experience at FOSDEM 2025, including the process of setting up a functional programming BOF room! https://tarides.com/blog/2025-03-28-fosdem-2025-report-from-the-friendly-functional-languages-bof-room/

We have a new feature parity post on the statistical memory profiler Statmemprof! Now compatible with OCaml 5 thanks to some hard work from our teams and the OCaml community 🐫 Learn more on our blog: https://tarides.com/blog/2025-03-06-feature-parity-series-statmemprof-returns/

The Ocsigen framework, a collection of projects and resources for creating mobile and web applications in OCaml, is moving from using Lwt to Eio as its concurrency library! Learn more on our blog: https://tarides.com/blog/2025-03-13-we-re-moving-ocsigen-from-lwt-to-eio/

There is a new OCaml and WebAssembly update! We're celebrating the latest version of Wasm_of_ocaml, released jointly with Js_of_ocaml. Check out what's in the new release, including some exciting performance indications, on our blog. 🐫 🔥 https://tarides.com/blog/2025-02-19-the-first-wasm-of-ocaml-release-is-out/

Our latest blog post gives you an exciting update on OCaml 5 support for MirageOS. We share three different parts of the effort: Solo5, Unikraft, and improved cross-compilation. Check it out 🐫 https://tarides.com/blog/2025-02-06-mirageos-on-ocaml-5/

I'm really happy to present, with @tarides #OCaml Eglot, an #Emacs (minor) mode for editing OCaml code, using LSP through Eglot, the built-in #LSP client of Emacs: https://github.com/tarides/ocaml-eglot

Feedback, contribution and RT much appreciated

We are incredibly grateful and appreciative of our amazing December 2024 internship cohort sponsors, who make Outreachy's mission possible!

Your support and generous contributions help fund resources and provide paid remote internships in open source and open science to people facing systemic bias in tech in the countries they live in.

In this current cohort, we have sponsors in the following levels:
➡️ Equalizer - #Google(Open Source),
@wikimediafoundation Thank you for powering opportunities for underrepresented talents.

➡️ Promoter - #CiscoOpen , #Microsoft , #Mozilla. We appreciate you for creating meaningful change and advancement in the free and open source software ecosystem.

➡️ Includer - In this sponsorship level, we have #TechAtBloomberg, @debian
framapiaf.org @igalia
floss.social, @getsentry
fosstodon.org building bridges to tech careers. We appreciate your support.

➡️ Welcomer - We give a special appreciation to the sponsors on this level,
#Ersilia, #Indeed, #CloudNativeFoundation, @creativecommons
mastodon.social, @tarides
mastodon.social , @gnome
floss.social, @suricata
infosec.exchange,@tdforg
fosstodon.org, who are opening doors to new possibilities in the hashtag#FOSS ecosystem.

Together, we lead the charge and create a more diverse and inclusive hashtag#FOSS community. Thank you all for your sponsorship!

Explore our latest blog post reviewing our 2024 projects, which focus on making OCaml easier to use. This includes enhancements for Windows, improvements in Dune, better installation processes, and more! https://tarides.com/blog/2025-01-20-tarides-2024-in-review/